French here, he was speaking about his own terms, his entourage is defending it as “Ahah dw it was a late night joke !”

And this guy is so corrupt that it could be true, or not, it’s a toss coin at this point.

One thing’s for sure, it’s not gonna happen anytime soon, the French deffo wouldn’t let him.

I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day ? That’s probably the only thing I can agree with this far right fuck Bardella. We should have a single term 7 years term to avoid what we have lived with Macron : not much on the first half of the first term, campaigning for the second term after that and now an absolute madness of authoritarianism, force pushed unpopular and unnecessary reforms and the further destruction of the very fabric of this country, because he’s got nothing to loose anymore. That or a new republic that would give less power to a single person, like a parliamentary system.

I was about to say I don’t think it’s misleading but honestly on a re-read the article leaves a lot open for interpretation.

French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the two-term constitutional limit that means he must step down in 2027 as “damnable bullshit” in comments at a meeting with party leaders on Wednesday.

According to the far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Macron said it was “damnable bullshit that one could not be re-elected”

The president was reportedly responding to a proposal by far-right leader Jordan Bardella, who was suggesting France switch to a single seven-year presidential term.

Like if you look at all of these together the article implies he’s talking about his own term limits, some unknown source presumably allied with Macron claims it was in response to Bardella, and the quote from Mélenchon could refer to either.

I couldn’t find any other context in English beyond this. I would assume he’s talking about his own limits and the responding to Bardella bit is him and his allies trying to give him political cover, but it’s genuinely unclear.

The lesser of two evils implies they’re both still evil

Sorry for my rusty english :

It’s really worrying…the two terms election is here to stop any power abuse and they complain…Do they want to start a dictatorship ?
Well, Macron isn’t moderate. In fact, he belong to an extremist movement too, but as we call it “center”, he sound righteous, reasonable between left and right. Imho, Biden/Trudeau/Macron aren’t different : they share the same view on economics system.

Currently, he is destroying our social system without listening its people : teachers, doctors, hospital, scientifics…are underpaid (same for the previous president). He asked us to work longer whereas at 60, you rapidly start declining and we presented other and better solution. He didn’t listen and imposed the law with 49.3 hence one of the longest strike in France.

He forced poor people to work 3 days per week to get a small fee that mean poor people will be forced to accept any kind of degrading bullshit job to live. Rich people aren’t taxed and get some fund for their projet…Furthermore he doing nothing toward the environnement except building new nuclear plant which is far from enough and risky because nuclear plant rely on water to cool down. And France will become a desertic area. We are unable to reduce our carbon footprint around the world, so it’s clear we will reach the worst scenario. We need both : renewable and nuclear.

So, here is the painting.

Wasn’t he supposed to be the Biden/Trudeau of France? Can someone explain why he’s dancing this dance?

He is a liberal applying a liberal policy. Nothing moderate in “liberal” policies but good old right-wing policy with a drop of social varnish to get voters

Kinda moderate in pre-election speaches, but has been pushing a liberal agenda backed by police brutality since day one.

Also been getting high on feeling “the big man” since the beginning, I remember him being a jerk to a middle school student who called him “Manu” as a joke, he went all “that’s mister president for you, you can call me Manu once you’ve accomplished something with your life”.

To put it quickly, liberalism degenerate into fascism when facing difficulties.

In fact, any system will degenerate into fascism when facing a wall because fascism is the core of the state.

Macron is tired of fighting to push liberalism so hard, but he will rather ally and even become fascist than allying with the left. Because the left is radically anti-liberal while the right is merely fascist, but that’s not anti-liberal so it’s fine.

Power corrupts

He was never a good guy, he’s a “centrist”/liberal.

Lol he wish he had an inkling of that dude’s leadership and charisma.